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An introduction to the Library and its resources
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Introduction
• Welcome to the Library!• This presentation will help you locate library resources.
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Library home page
• To locate Subject Guides, the Online Library Catalogue, Journal Articles and E-Journals go to the Library home page at:
http://library.lakeheadu.ca
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Library home page
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Subject Guides
• The Library has subject guides in many different topics.• These guides list dictionaries, encyclopedias,
handbooks, directories, databases and websites in a variety of subjects.
• To access these subject guides online: Go to the homepage at http://library.lakeheadu.ca and under “Find” select “Resources by Subject”
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Finding a Subject Guide
Subject Guide for Biology
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Includes dictionaries encyclopedias, databases and
websites
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Locating journal articles on a topic
• In order to find an article on a specific subject, you need to use a journal index or database.
• The index/database provides basic citation information (journal title, volume, page and year)
• Some indexes and databases provide full-text journal articles
• Go to the Library home page and select Journal Articles under “Find”
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Finding Journal Articles
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Journal Articles
• You can select a database by title or by subject
Biology Databases
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Biological Abstracts, Web of Science and PubMed are
your “top 3” databases
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Scholarly Journals
• Before we start searching scholarly databases for journal articles, how do you know if an article is scholarly?
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Magazines
• Magazines may contain unsigned articles• contain articles of general interest about personalities,
current news items, etc.• will contain many advertisements
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Magazines
• Magazines – some examples:
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Scholarly Journals
• All Scholarly/research articles should have references or a bibliography and footnotes.
• Many scholarly journals will include an editorial board which tells you how articles are published.
• They may include an abstract or summary of the article
Check out our Guide to Scholarly Journals here!
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Scholarly Journals
• In the Sciences, a journal or journal article in the refers to original research.
• A review is a review of the literature
• So now that we know what a scholarly/research article is, let’s see how to find them!
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Searching Biological Abstracts
• What is Biological Abstracts?• Biological Abstracts monitors more than 5,000 international journals
to ensure that virtually every life science topic is covered, including agriculture, biochemistry, biotechnology, botany, ecology, the environment, microbiology, neurology, pharmacology, public health and toxicology
• Coverage is from 1985-• Only 10 simultaneous users
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Searching Biological Abstracts
• You can search Biological Abstracts by:
Keyword search – use a combination of words and phrases
Natural language = ordinary English
Subject = Map Term to Subject Heading
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Searching Biological Abstracts
Let’s search green fluorescent
protein
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Searching Biological Abstracts
Note the option to limit to Articles
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Searching Biological Abstracts
Let’s select Cell Biology and
then click on Continue
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Searching Biological Abstracts
Over 1175709 results!!!
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Searching Biological Abstracts
• We have too many search results. How can we limit that?
• You can limit by year, language, publication type etc.
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Searching Biological Abstracts
Let’s limit to English
Language, from 2010 and
an article.
Remember to click on your result below
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Searching Biological Abstracts
Then click Search
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Searching Biological Abstracts
Now we have Over 7,000 results!That is too many
We can limit our search further
by clicking on Additional Limits
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Additional Limits in Biological Abstracts
Limits include, publication
types, gender, age, geographic location, plants,
animals etc.
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Additional Limits in Biological Abstracts
Let’s limit our search by
Human and Bacterial Disease
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Additional Limits in Biological Abstracts
Then scroll up or down to the
bottom or top of the page and
click on Limit a Search
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Searching Biological Abstracts
We now have21 results!
To view yourresults, click on
Display
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Searching Biological Abstracts
You can narrowyour search by clicking
on Subjects, Authors orJournals
Results in Biological Abstracts
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Find Similar will find more articleson your topic
Results in Biological Abstracts
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Find Citing Articleswill find articles
that cited this article
Results in Biological Abstracts
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Click on the get it! iconto check if
we have the article
in the Library
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Example of a screen
get it! is an automatic service which will
check if we have the article in the Library.
If we have this article electronically it will
tell you.
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Searching Biological Abstracts
What if the article is not available
electronically?
Then the get it! service directs you
to our Online Catalogue
Click on the link Check to access the
Online Catalogue
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Searching Biological Abstracts
We don’t have this journal in the Library
What do you do now?
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Searching Biological Abstracts
Since we don’t have the journal in the
Library, you will need to order it via RACER – our interlibrary loan
service
You will need to register for RACER
first.
Click on the link to register
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Searching Biological Abstracts
RACER Registration
Form
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Searching Biological Abstracts
Now that you have registered for
RACER, click on the Request document via interlibrary loan
RACER link
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Searching Biological Abstracts
This is the RACER order form. Notice that all of the
information for your article is already on the
form
You will need to scroll down
the form to login to your
RACER account
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Choose your Pickup Location
from thedrop-down menu
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Searching Biological Abstracts
Login to your RACER
account and click Submit
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Searching Biological Abstracts
• You can search using natural language (in ordinary English)
• How do you do that?
• You will need to go to the Basic Search and then type in your question or phrase
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Searching Biological Abstracts
Type in your question or topic
and click on search
Reminder: you can limit your search
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Searching Biological Abstracts - Results
Searching Web of Science
• What is Web of Science?• Provides web access to the Institute of Scientific Information's Science
Citation Index Expanded, Social Science Citation Index and Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Conference Proceedings Citation Index- Science, and Conference Proceedings Citation Index- Social Science & Humanities. Unlike most other indexes, citation indexes allow users to search for articles that have cited a known author or work, thus retrieving more recent research on a similar topic.
• Coverage from 1975-
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Searching Web of Science
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Searching Web of Science
You can chooseone year or a range
of years
Searching Web of Science
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You can searchby topic, title,
author, language etc.
Searching Web of Science
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Let’s searchsonic hedgehogs
as atopic
Search Science Citation
Expanded only
Limit from 2008-2010
Searching Web of Science
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Check out your results
Searching Web of Science
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You can limit your results by clicking
checking off the
Articles box
You could also check
off Cell Biology
Searching Web of Science
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Now you have 210 results!
If you want to check if the Library has a copy
of the article
remember to click on the get it!
icon
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Searching Web of Science
• Web of Science has an added feature called Cited Reference Search.
• What is that?• Cited Searching allows you to find articles by a specific author or a
particular work of an author and see if they have been cited in other articles.
• How can this help?• This allows you to see how research and ideas develop and grow.
• How does it work?
Searching Web of Science
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Note: Use the author’s
last name and
only the first initial
Use an * (asterisk) if there is a
middle name or second
initial
You can search by the author’s name, by the author and a specific work
and by a year or a range of years
For example, let’s search for Albert Einstein
Searching Web of Science
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You can see a whole list of
articles which cite our author
You can choose one, a few or all of the articles
listed by clicking on the box next to the citation or
by selecting page or
selecting all
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Once you are done, click on Finish Search
Searching Web of Science
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Your result!
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Searching PubMed
What is PubMed?• PubMed covers over 3,000 of the world's leading biomedical
journals and periodicals, providing bibliographic citations and authors' abstracts relating to all aspects of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences.
• Coverage from 1966-
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Searching PubMed
• Try searching PubMed by keyword or using the
Thesaurus called MeSH (Medical Subject Headings)
PubMed
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Let’s search for sonic hedgehog
signaling
PubMed
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1654 results!Let’s limit our
search byclicking on
Limits
PubMed
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You can limit by
date, publication
type, language,
gender, age etc.
PubMed
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Let’s limit to journals
articles written in the last year, in English
PubMed
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When done, click
Search
PubMed
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To view a record click on the citation link
PubMed
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Click on the get it! icon to check if
we have the journal
article in the Library
PubMed
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Note the Related
Citations
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Searching PubMed
• Searching PubMed using MeSH – Medical Subject Headings
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PubMed
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Select MeSH from the
drop-down menu
PubMed
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Type in your keyword e.g. cancer and click Go
PubMed
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We searched for Cancer and MeSH directs
us to Neoplasms
Click on one of the terms to
get more information
PubMed
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This gives you an
explanation of the term,
other terms and
subheadings which you can search
PubMed
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Click on the box Restrict
to MeSH Major Topic.
Then click on the “Add to
search builder” icon
PubMed
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Let’s search for Chemotherapy
PubMed
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We searched for
Chemotherapy and MeSH
directs us to Drug Therapy
Let’s mark #1 and “Add to
search builder” icon and then click on the “Search PubMed” icon
PubMed
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283037
results!
Let’s limit our results
PubMed
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Click on Limits to limit your search
PubMed
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Let’s limit to the last year, Human,
Female, English Language, Journal article and Middle Aged: 45-64 years
Click Search
PubMed
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You can always add more limits by clicking on Change under
Limits Activated
Note that you can also click on the link to Free
Full-Text Articles
PubMed
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You can always add more limits by clicking on Change under
Limits Activated
Note that you can also click on the link to Free
Full-Text Articles
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RefWorks
• What is RefWorks?• RefWorks is a web-based bibliography and database
manager that allows you to create your own personal database by importing references from text files or online databases.
• You can use these references in writing papers and automatically format the paper and the bibliography.
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RefWorks
• How do you get started?• You will need to register for a free account
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Connecting from home
• When you access past exams, e-journals and most of our electronic resources from off-campus, you will need to login with your Lakehead University email username and password.
• Remember to omit the @lakeheadu.ca after your username.
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Connecting from home screen
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Some Search Tips
• Check out Annual Reviews – they offer comprehensive, timely collections of critical reviews, written by leading scientists.
• Science, the journal - world's leading journal of original scientific research, global news, and commentary.
• Nature – international weekly science journal
All of these publications accessible from the Library's home page under E-Journal Titles. They are listed alphabetically.
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Summary• Library Homepage - http://library.lakeheadu.ca• Finding Articles: http://library.lakeheadu.ca/wp/?
pg=183• RACER• RefWorks
The End
If you have any questions,
please contact the Research Help Desk at(807) 343-8302
or Email us at researchhelp@lakeheadu.ca